The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has rejected the latest Brexit backstop proposals from the chief negotiator put forward for Northern Ireland. Michel Barnier has proposed that goods could be checked in Britain before arriving in Northern Ireland. The EU has proposed a backstop that would mean Northern Ireland staying in the customs union, large parts of the single market and the EU VAT system. Mr Barnier has emphasised that it can only apply to Northern Ireland. The Labour leader has also criticised any plan that would lead to a border in the Irish Sea.

Liam Fox is planning to use controversial “Henry VIII” powers to scrap European food standards in order to pave the way for a trade deal with the US after Brexit. Theresa May’s government has insisted that they will not water down EU regulations which currently prohibit the sale of products such as chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef in Britain. However, Fox and Crawford Falconer, the UK’s chief trade negotiation adviser, have privately discussed rewriting UK food standards through the upcoming Trade Bill…

Well to me, taken in conjunction withe the rest of the interview, it certainly sounded like a “no”. When asked if he could live with an Irish Sea border he didn’t talk about it being very difficult and then drop in a “but…”. It was pretty strongly implied that the answer was “no”. And that is how the UK media is interpreting it. So where is Corbyn’s alternative plan?

Frankly, Corbyn has no moral right to even open his mouth and pontificate on Irish affairs. He speaks for a possible alternative UK future Government, to whom Ireland is nothing more than an irritating footnote. He also does not have the backbone, in a crisis, to do what should be done, and stare down the DUP headbangers. there are a number of ways this can be done. Abolishing Irish seats in the London parliament, and making the Northern assembly fully self governing with the full home rule would do the trick. The fact that the assembly is incapable of functioning. and direct rule would be required, can only be to the good, as it would expose the whole situation in the North, which sooner or later would lead to impossible problems for a future UK Government. Outcome: IREXIT. Problem solved. Anyone else got any ideas?

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